Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

Student Venture Executive Getaway 2009

Launched May 2009
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Each year, our high school min­istry, Stu­dent Ven­ture, hosts a get­away con­fer­ence for exec­u­tives and their fam­i­lies. The con­fer­ence pro­vides a plat­form for Stu­dent Ven­ture to share God’s heart for reach­ing young peo­ple and pro­vides the exec­u­tives and their fam­i­lies an oppor­tu­nity to part­ner in this cause.

Last year, I designed and devel­oped a com­pan­ion Web site to go along with a printed invi­ta­tion. This year, I came up with a new design that com­pli­mented the visual iden­tity of the printed invi­ta­tion. My col­league chose an Art Deco theme. I stayed with that theme and used sev­eral of the graphic ele­ments that he pro­duced for the his print piece.

Because I devel­oped last year’s site with well struc­tured seman­tic HTML and CSS, it took me very lit­tle time to rewrite the CSS to change the visual look for this year. Most of my work was pro­duc­ing the graph­ics I needed to imple­ment the design.

My role

  • Visual design and layout
  • XHTML and CSS coding

Key Ben­e­fits

  • Well struc­tured HTML and CSS allowed me to develop this site in a day.
  • Con­sis­tency of visual iden­tity of the con­fer­ence. The pre­vi­ous site had car­ried over the look of Stu­dent Venture’s main Web site.
  • Reg­is­tra­tion form allows exec­u­tive donors to RSVP online.

Tech­nol­ogy

  • PHP cod­ing deter­mined the suc­cess mes­sage that the user would receive after using the RSVP form. If the user had indi­cated that they were bring­ing chil­dren, the suc­cess mes­sage would direct them to fur­ther infor­ma­tion and forms that they would need for childcare.
  • Stan­dards com­pli­ant CSS2 layout
Student Venture Executive Getaway Screenshot

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